Metropoltan Hilarion of Volokolamsk visits Head of the Anglican Church
13. September 2010 - 11:22
On Thursday, September 9, 2010, President of the Department of the external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who upon the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kyrril of Moscow and All Russia was in London and met with the head of the Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in his residence in Lambeth Palace.
Heads of Alexandrian and Russian Church serve in the Church of Christ the Saviour
8. September 2010 - 13:30
On September 5, on the feast day of the Synaxis of the Moscos Saints, His Holiness Patriarch Theodor II of Alexandria and All Africa and His Holiness Patriarch Kyrril of Moscow and All Russia served the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral church of Christ the Saviour.
Source: Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral
Ecumenical Patriarch calls for titanic and righteous battle to protect the environment
3. September 2010 - 9:33
The Ecumenical Patriarch said that "for our Orthodox Church, the protection of the environment, as a divine and very good creation, embodies a great responsibility for every human person, regardless of material or financial benefits." The ecumenical patriarch is calling upon Orthodox Christians to "take part in the titanic and righteous battle to alleviate the environmental crisis." Calling for "a standard of economic and social policy whose priority will be the environment, and not unbridled financial gain." The Ecumenical Patriarch said that "for our Orthodox Church, the protection of the environment, as a divine and very good creation, embodies a great responsibility for every human person, regardless of material or financial benefits."
"The direct correlation of the God-given duty and mandate, to work and preserve, with every aspect of contemporary life constitutes the only way to a harmonious co-existence with each and every element of creation, and the entirety of the natural world in general," he added in his September 1 message for the Day of the Protection of the Environment. The day is also the beginning of the Orthodox liturgical year. The patriarch concluded, "Let us motivate ourselves to harmonize our personal and collective life and attitudes with the needs of nature's ecosystems, so that every kind of fauna and flora in the world and in the universe may live and thrive and be preserved."
Patriarch Kyrril consecrates restored icon on the walls of Kremlin
2. September 2010 - 13:16
On Saturday, August 28, on the feast day of the Assumption of Mother of God, the President of Russian Federation Dimitry Medvedev and about thousand believers were present at the formal consecration of the icon above the gate of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, done by His Holiness Patriarch Kyrril of Moscow and All Russia.
Swiss theologian became an Orthodox
31. August 2010 - 8:59
A well-known Swiss theologian, hieromonk Gabriel (Bunge) became an Orthodox before the divine service at the church of the "Joy to All the Afflicted" Icon on Bolshaya Ordynka Street in Moscow. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations cordially greeted Fr. Gabriel who has lived a solitary life in the Swiss mountains for over thirty years, the DECR website reports.
